Florida education scholarship funding bills set for special session
News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — With a special legislative session poised to start Monday, the Florida House and Senate on Thursday released proposals that could lead to more students...
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Florida education scholarship funding bills set for special session
News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — With a special legislative session poised to start Monday, the Florida House and Senate on Thursday released proposals that could lead to more students...
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Florida lawmakers aim to boost scholarship funding to meet increased demand
By News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida lawmakers are gearing up to provide additional funding to a part of the state’s school-voucher program that serves students with special...
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Special report: Why Catholic schools in Florida are growing
This paper was authored by the Step Up For Students team of Lauren May, director of advocacy and a former Catholic school teacher and principal; Patrick Gibbons, senior manager for...
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Coming Tuesday: Growth, innovation and diversity in Florida Catholic schools
On Tuesday, a new report by Step Up For Students will document the growth and increasing diversity of Florida’s Catholic schools. The report is primarily based on data from the...
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Column: What Florida’s school choice scholarship programs meant to me
Editor’s note: The following column by Hera Varmah, a beneficiary of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship and the communication and events assistant at the American Federation for Children, originally appeared...
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Commentary: Parent wants education choice for all Texas kids
Editor’s note: This commentary, written by team members at the Institute for Justice, orginally appeared June18 in the Beaumont Enterprise. Texas parent Danielle Chavez loves public schools, just not the...
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Report: Four recommendations as states begin hard work of putting ESA programs in place
Editor’s note: This commentary by Nicole Stelle Garnett, senior fellow at The Manhattan Institute, and Michael McShane, director of national research at EdChoice and guest blogger at reimaginED, appeared...
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Commentary: Time running out for PA governor to make good on promise to expand school choice
Editor’s note: This commentary by Kevin Mooney, senior investigation journalist at the Commonwealth Foundation, Pennsylvania’s free-market think tank, originally appeared June 16 in the Daily Caller. By following through...
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Latest Nation’s Report Card data show decades of decline for 13-year-olds
Editor’s note: This story on the latest scores released from the National Assessment of Educational Progress originally appeared Wednesday in The 74. COVID-19’s cataclysmic impact on K–12 education, coming on...
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Commentary: Do charter schools hold the key to correcting pandemic learning loss?
Editor’s note: This post from Bruno V. Manno, senior adviser to the Walton Family Foundation’s K-12 Program and a reimaginED contributor, appeared Friday in the The Messenger. A wide-ranging national study of...
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Study suggests best way to teach might depend on the subject
Editor’s note: This post was originally published in the The Hechinger Report. What is the best way to teach? Some educators like to deliver clear explanations to students. Others...
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Should U.S. schools add more time to make students competitive with peers in other countries?
Editor’s note: This year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation establishing a four-year pilot program to study whether year-round school helps eliminate learning loss. The following national commentary about time...
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Nebraska leaders form group to fight teachers union effort to repeal state’s first ed choice scholarship program
Editor’s note: On May 30, Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen signed legislation establishing the first education choice program in the state’s history. The passage met with immediate resistance from opponents, who...
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Black Minds Matter: How one woman is leading the charge for school change
Editor’s note: This article about Black Minds Matter founder Denisha Allen appeared recently on theharlemtimes.com. To read a report about Black educator-entrepreneurs authored by Allen and Step Up For Students’...
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High school first industry credentials: A scalable approach to improving schools
Editor’s note: reimaginED executive editor Matt Ladner submitted this post to us on behalf of author, Ed Jones, who leads High School Remixed and the education transformation lab Skunkworks\edu. Jones...
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As Indiana preps for near-universal school choice, the program has already grown
Editor’s note: This article appeared Tuesday on stateaffairs.com. Eligibility for Indiana’s school choice voucher program is poised to dramatically increase next school year, enabling roughly 97% of students to use state money...
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Success of educational choice laws will depend on implementing them with excellence
Editor’s note: This commentary from Robert Enlow, president and CEO of EdChoice, appears in the Spring 2023 issue of Education Next. One in seven of America’s K-12 students has recently...
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